Born of James Holroyd’s Leeds Fireclay Company and rich local deposits of both coal and clay, the Burmantofts Pottery ran for 24 years – entering the fray of a burgeoning British art pottery movement in 1880 and leaving it as a financial bad lot in 1904.
During this relatively brief flowering, more than 2000 different models were produced and talent arrived in Leeds from both the locality and from much further afield. Today, the church built in Shakespeare Street in 1877 to serve a growing population of artisan potters is one of the few buildings still standing from a site that once comprised 90 kilns across 16 acres.
Despite the renown of the factory, this is a subject about which relatively little has been written. Much of the knowledge is held in pockets of expertise, or can only be gleaned across a variety of publications that include the catalogue from the 1983 breakthrough exhibition held at Cartwright Hall in Bradford and a privately printed work by Jason Wigglesworth, Burmantofts Faience: A Compendium of Designs.
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